Use of Author's Textual Schema [microform] : Key for Ninth Graders' Comprehension / Bonnie J. F. Meyer and Others
- Bib ID:
- 5347537
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Meyer, Bonnie J. F
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1978
- 26 p.
- Summary:
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A study was made of the importance to reading comprehension of using the author's top-level organization or textual schema. The subjects, 102 ninth graders with high, average, and low reading comprehension scores, read expository passages, some of which included signals explicitly stating the top-level organizational structure and some of which did not. The students wrote recall protocols immediately after reading the passages and again one week later. Analysis of the data revealed that fewer than 50% of the students made use of the author's textual schema in their reading; most students rated high in reading comprehension used the same schema for organizing their recall protocols as the author of the passage, while most students with low reading comprehension did not; use of this strategy was a better predictor of recall than test scores in vocabulary or comprehension; and students who used this strategy discriminated better between information consistent with the semantics of the passage and intruded information on the same topic than students who did not use the strategy. The use of signaling facilitated the performance of some students--especially low and average readers--on the immediate recall task but not on the delayed recall. (GW)
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- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (Toronto, Canada, March 27-31, 1978).
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